The group of languages spoken by the largest number of people in India is:

Austro-Asiatic

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Indo-Aryan

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Dravidian

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none of these

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The correct option is B Indo-Aryan
lndo-Aryan group of languages spoken by the largest number of people in India. There are about 219 known Indo-Aryan languages. The largest in terms of speakers are Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu, about 329 million), Bengali (242 million), Punjabi (about 100 million) and other languages, with a 2005 estimate placing the total number of native speakers at nearly 900 million.

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